Rooster- I was only speaking of Rolex and of the U.S. Customs regulations . I forgot your in Canada. I don't know anything about importing this to Canada.

Keith, sorry man! I can recall buying my first steel Daytona for $4,350 and my dad buying a gold PP Calatrava with a 40% discount from an AD making it $5,700!

RFX, sorry but that regulation can be interpreted more broadly. I think you're reading of it is too focused on whether or not the watch is new, the real issue is that it's from overseas. Any Rolex not purchased new from a US AD would include any Rolex purchased overseas new or used. As a used Rolex in Europe was not sold new by a U.S. AD. Maybe the exception being a watch originally sold through a US AD that subsequently got sold to a shop overseas. Whether Customs would contact Rolex to see whether or not it was originally watch sold in the US is unlikely.

Also James Dowling's website used to always inform collectors he will not sell a Rolex to someone in the US in less they are physically picking it up or sending an agent to physically pick it up. He would not ship it to the US. And all of his Rolex watches are preowned. He specifically stated customs issues as the reason why he would not ship or sell watches to people in the US.

I picked up a jewelry box in ebony with three watch winders built in at the annual Asprey sale in London around ten years ago. It was a bespoke order that was rejected for a tiny chip off a rear bottom corner (which I rendered virtually undetectable with a dab of stain and finishing wax.) $5k reduced to $250. I love those kind of deals.

Those were the days. I got some great deals on random small leather goods under the old management. I think they now have a 'no sale' policy.

I have heard of people buying watches and wearing them, while shipping the boxes/receipts home.

this may have happened to me some time ago. but my memory is foggy and i may have dreamed it but my (perhaps fabricated) remembrance is that it was favorable

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My search continues for BlackXRoseGold dress watch and this week I am looking at the GO Sixties.

Definitely cheaper than VC, Moser, A Lange, etc... But there seems to be something off about this watch that I can't quite figure out

if i were in your shoes my search would have stopped with the VC you posted some pages ago. unless you want to throw a Lange 1 into the mix.

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I picked up a jewelry box in ebony with three watch winders built in at the annual Asprey sale in London around ten years ago. It was a bespoke order that was rejected for a tiny chip off a rear bottom corner (which I rendered virtually undetectable with a dab of stain and finishing wax.) $5k reduced to $250. I love those kind of deals.

now this is a winder price i can get behind.

i'm not mocking those of you that have expensive winders. i'm more lamenting the fact that this industry seems to only have Bentleys and Chevy Aveos on offer. where's the Toyota Camry of the breed?

i'm not mocking those of you that have expensive winders. i'm more lamenting the fact that this industry seems to only have Bentleys and Chevy Aveos on offer. where's the Toyota Camry of the breed?

I think you can find a good middle ground. Diplomat and Heiden might just be good enough for you. Their cases range from $50-$1000. Next level is Volta and Wolf and then Orbita and Scatola And Rapport and it just goes baller after that.

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if i were in your shoes my search would have stopped with the VC you posted some pages ago. unless you want to throw a Lange 1 into the mix.

I've always wanted it but since I am in no hurry to buy I am considering all options. For Lange I am considering the Saxonia, maybe the Dual Time is the busiest I'd go with the dial.

Not really complaining but whenever one of my neighbors (Lennox Hill NYC) sells for a price that would have gotten the entire block (23 brownstones) when I bought in '79, well, it's only human nature for a bit of second guessing.

Happy Friday everyone! I wore my AP Royal Oak exclusively this entire week, and now I'm going through that typical collector's deliberation over whether to trade 3-4 pieces I'm not wearing much (16610 Sub, PAM 112, IWC BP) to pick up the gold GMTII . . . There's nothing in that bunch that couldn't be easily replaced should I wind up missing it . . . I've got a boozy lunch and then a free afternoon, could be dangerous. LOL